Tag: organ
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1916-1929: Managing the Renneborg
Read More: 1916-1929: Managing the RenneborgAs we were eating in the backroom the next day, Mom suddenly appeared and said “Dad is dying”. So we crept quietly into the front room, where he laid in his bed, gasping for air and not knowing what was happening around him.
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~ Mr. Joosse – 1975
Read More: ~ Mr. Joosse – 1975My teenage son had learned to play the drums quite well.. he’d smitten the peace of our home to smithereens … keep smiling!
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A Good Friday
Read More: A Good FridayGood Friday morning. I climbed the spiraling, creaking stairs to the organ loft, young and inexperienced, I needed to practice for the evening service.
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~ The Choirboy
Read More: ~ The ChoirboyA shock of black hair, too wild for a WASP church. I wondered how he got mixed up with the aging parishioners of this Anglican cathedral
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Zoden an diek
Read More: Zoden an diekk lag in berre en docht noa over mien veulbewogen leven.Dat dou ik om aander dag, k heb tied der joa veur.Ik docht aan t hounderhok dat ik in oorlog tegen ons achterschuurtje aanbaauwde. Ik was twaalf joar old in 1944 en kreeg t oardeg veur mekoar. Binnen tenminste nooit hounder ontsnapt.Joa man, ik har…
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Opa Dekker in Toronto
Read More: Opa Dekker in TorontoOl man was op viside bie zien dochter in Beamsville, Ontario. t Was kurig kereltje mit zien olderwedse pedde op en n bocheltje dij e kregen har deur t knoeien op t land van n boer in Finnerwold. Hai har ook wel noar Canada wilt vrouger, moar zien vraauw dus nait vlaigen, en dus ging…
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City on a Hill
Read More: City on a HillI can never relive the experience of Amiens Cathedral, even after all the time I spent in its cavernous space that summer of 2023.